They were hiding ALL THIS Revisiting Holy Frijoles (Baltimore MD), 4K arcade tou

If you're a frequent visitor of my channel, you may have already seen my previous visit to Baltimore's legendary taco and pinball joint, Holy Frijoles. At the time, I was super impressed with the quality of the food and pleased with the selection of the nearly 2 dozen machines they had on site. I CAN'T BELIEVE how much I MISSED. Thanks to the well-known arcade and pinball news blogger Knapp Arcade, I was made aware of the existence of the "secret tournament room", which had a wild amount of rare pinball machines, some of which I had never seen in person before. It wasn't until they announced they'd be holding a tournament the weekend just before Thanksgiving where this room would be open up to the public. Naturally, I signed up for it, as did the rest of my pinball-loving family, and we made the trip down from New Jersey to check it out. I was NOT READY for what I walked into. The massive amount of machines upstairs across four separate rooms was mind blowing. Not just one room, FOUR of them. All in all, there ended up being about sixty machines upstairs, many of which I had never played. Sure, there were some popular ones amongst the selection, such as Star Trek: The Next Generation, Fish Tales, or Ripley's Believe It Or Not!, but personally I loved seeing ones that you just don't find out in the wild that often. Highlights for me included the absolutely bonkers Gottlieb game Q*bert's Quest, a four-flipper figure eight playfield from 1983 that takes the classic videogame into a whole new dimension. I also really enjoyed seeing the two-player pinball battle games Challenger and Joust, because there's nothing like playing head to head! Especially when the entire table angles up and down like it does on Challenger, which is absolutely amazing for an old EM. Cherry Bell was a very cool table imported from Spain circa the late 70's, manufactured by the Spanish arm of Sega under the brand name Sonic. Yeah, Sonic was around in the 70's! Amazing. And there was also a